Friday, 2 October 2015

Blood And Black Lace [Sei donne per l'assassino/Six Women For The Murderer]

Bava was no fool, he knew the best part of the popular yellow jacketed thriller novels of the time were their lurid covers. So he used the full force of his baroque mastery of light and shadow to create a sumptuous moving montage of them that formed the Giallo template and reverberated through over 50 years of Slasher cinema.